54th GEF Council meeting launched in Da Nang City

The meeting, held every four years to share solutions on sustainable development, is now organized to consider the updated policy on co-sponsorship; the increase of cooperation between members of the GEF; the regulations on the transparent resource allocation system for the 7th period from 2018 – 2022; the plans and budget in 2019; the working schedule of GEF; the agreements on minor sponsorship and the agreements on implementing the national sponsorship program for the GEF in the period from 2018 – 2022. Participating in the series of event are environment ministers of many countries in the world, managers of the United Nations’ bodies, and leaders of multi-lateral financial organizations like Mr. Achim Steiner, CEO of the United Nations Development Program; Mr. Erik Solheim, CEO of the United Nations Environment Programme; Mr. Takehiko Nakao, President of the Asian Development Bank; European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; Ms. Cristiana Pasca Palmer, Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity; Mr. Peter Thomson, United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean; Mr. Howard Bamsey, Executive Director of the Secretariat of the Green Climate Fund. This event is also joined by leaders of giant international corporates such as Mr. Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever; Ms. Sunny Verghese, CEO of Olam International; and scientists such as Mr. Johan Rockstrom, CEO of the Stockholm Resilience Center; leaders of non-governmental organizations like Mr. Andrew Steer, President cum CEO of the World Resources Institute; Mr. Shenggen Fan, General Director of the International Food Policy Research… [Read full story]